slug control

[Cuchilo]

Sharp sand from your local builders' merchant.

Add a bit of cement and you could make them little concrete boots and drown the buggers .

 

[Bazzer]

Nemaslug.

+1 .
You just need to plan a little.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Nemaslug. I shall order some tonight and see how we go, it sounds perfect for my veggies and not killing the livestock, thanks all.

 

[ColinJ]

Sharp sand from your local builders' merchant.

Add a bit of cement and you could make them little concrete boots and drown the buggers .

Add even more sand, and more cement and build a big wall! Preferably with an electrified fence along its side and a couple of hedgehogs stationed on the top to pick off any slugs that make it that far. If you are really paranoid, then set up a tent inside the wall and tell your children/grandchildren that there is a bounty on slugs and let them camp out overnight with torches. They will think it is really exciting and you could probably get away with one KitKat per 100 slugs!

 

[User482]

We've used Nemaslug before and I'm sure we will again on the veg patch, and this year we are trying wool (I think that's what we are using it for).

We tried that, and it was a dismal failure!

 

[Cuchilo]

I wonder if snails are time trialing slugs

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I wonder if snails are time trialing slugs

Hmmm, they look more like MTB helmets than aero ones

 

[summerdays]

We tried that, and it was a dismal failure!

The wool was a failure?

Looks messy on the ground, but so far it's been pretty dry so the slugs are mostly in hiding!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Yep - my daughter bought some of that wool. Completely hopeless.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Nemaslug. I shall order some tonight and see how we go,

Me too.

 

[summerdays]

Can't remember what the instructions for using it is but probably not when it is so dry.

 

[Davidc]

If the problem is snails just collect them up, boil them and serve with garlic and butter. That way you get to eat your veg after all, albeit in a slightly different form than you planned!

Hedgehogs! Just remember anything oral you give a slug to eat to kill it will also poison hedgehogs and other wildlife. I'd never heard of beer. I suppose there will be a few drunk hedgehogs around now

The organic pellets recommended by the RHS at Rosemoor say they're harmless to hedgehogs, birds and other wildlife..